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Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Literature, English Department,
Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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M.A. graduate of English Literature, Sheikh-bahaei University, Iran
Email: fshahpoori88@yahoo.com
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Corresponding author.
Email: pirnajmuddin@fgn.ui.ac.ir
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as vulgar and inhuman. Being grown up in a workingclass family, Eliza does not have a chance for formal
education and her first self, presented at the beginning
of the play, is the product of her lower-class family
culture and the strict disciplines of her father. One of the
scenes demonstrating Elizas different way of life is her
commentary on bathing:
its easy to clean up here. Hot and cold water on tap... Wooly
towels, there is... Soft brushes to scrub yourself, and a wooden
bowl of soap smelling like primroses. Now I know why ladies is
so clean. Washings a treat for them. Wish they saw what it is for
the like of me. (II., lines. 580-5)
you are to live here for the next six months, learning how to
speak beautifully, like a lady in a florists shop. If youre good
and do whatever youre told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, and have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and
take rides in taxis. If youre naughty and idle you will sleep in
the back kitchen among the black beetles, and be walloped by
Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you
shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully dressed.
(II., lines.274-7)
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